VISIT TO POLAND DELAYED BY KOHL

By SERGE SCHMEMANN, Special to The New York Times

Published: July 4, 1989

BONN, July 3—
Chancellor Helmut Kohl has abandoned hopes for a symbolically important state visit to Poland this summer after German and Polish officials failed to agree on an aid package, his spokesman said today.

The spokesman, Hans Klein, gave no details of the differences. But he said the problems included the turmoil in the Polish Government and the inability to reach agreement on West German economic aid in exchange for better treatment of the German minority in Poland.

The agreement was to have been the centerpiece of a symbolic reconciliation on the 50th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, the act that opened World War II.

The postponement is certain to be a major disappointment for Mr. Kohl, who has spoken proudly about his efforts to open a new relationship with Poland. The setback was magnified by the fact that President Bush is to visit Poland early next week. Ceremonies in September

The delay in Mr. Kohl's visit also in effect put off a visit by President Richard von Weizsacker, who had hoped to take part in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary in September.

Both anticipated visits had come under fire from the newly vocal far right, which has always included an element of older Germans not reconciled to the loss of former German territories to Poland, as well as younger Germans who resent the Poles who are flooding into West Germany as immigrant ethnic Germans, asylum seekers and black-market laborers.

The rightists' resistance, backed by strong election showings this year, is assumed to have strengthened West Germany's reluctance as Poland's largest lender to make substantial new credits available before all Warsaw's creditors agree to a plan for the rescheduling of its $39 billion debt.

Mr. Klein told a news briefing that it was ''no longer possible'' to schedule the trip for late July as originally intended but that Mr. Kohl still hoped to go in the autumn. Changes in Poland

''In view of the considerable changes at the top of state and government in Poland, it seems sensible, in the interests of both sides, to await the results of the process going on there,'' he said.

The success of Solidarity in the Polish elections on June 4 has left unclear the composition of the next government in Warsaw, and the problem has been compounded by Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski's declaration that he will not seek the presidency.

The Bonn Government has never made public the package under discussion. But the German offer reportedly included accepting repayment of a defaulted billion-mark loan (the equivalent of about $500 million) in Polish currency and providing an undisclosed sum in new credits.

It was the credits in particular that the Poles found insufficient. In exchange, Warsaw would have agreed on a series of measures to improve the lot of the German minority in Poland and to lift in other ways the stigma of history still prevalent in official Polish attitudes toward Bonn. Negotiations Over Package

The package was negotiated during six meetings since last January between special emissaries - Mr. Kohl's national security adviser, Horst Teltschik, and Ernest Kucza of the Polish Government. Their last session was last week, and Mr. Teltschik said no date was set for the next meeting.

The Government denied being influenced by growing strength of the far right. But the strong showing of the Republican Party in three elections since January on a platform hostile to resident foreigners was widely presumed at least to have sharply limited the size of the financial package the Government was prepared to offer. Polish journalists in Bonn indicated that the German offer was substantially smaller than the Poles were initially led to expect.

West German commentators noted that a key participant in Bonn deliberations on a rescue plan was Theo Waigel, whom Mr. Kohl appointed as Finance Minister in April. Mr. Waigel is also the chairman of Bavaria's conservative Christian Social Union, which has most strongly felt the pressure from the Bavaria-based Republicans. Mr. Waigel and the Christian Social Union have recently taken a substantially harder line on Polish issues and presumably opposed a package that would have been unpopular with conservatives.